Horse distroying leg bandages?
I have a 4 yr old mare who has a SERIOUS leg injury at fetlock to hoof (white line). She has to be kept bandaged. She is shredding everything I put on her with her teeth. I have mixed cayenne pepper with everything you can imagine and put it on wraps. I have duck taped, gorilla taped no good. I made a wrap cover with roofing nails placed 1/2 inch apart and put over wraps. She shredded that also. She has destroyed several grazing muzzles. I don't know what else to try. I hate to keep her cross tied for the time it will take to heal. Any suggestions anyone? Please don't answer with stupid remarks, this is a serious problem.
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I had a horse that shredded blankets and wraps, his own and anybody's he could reach. I used a neck cradle on him all winter, every winter. http://www.onestopequineshop.com/Wood-Neck-Cradle_... The best 20 some bucks I ever spent.
there are various varieties of wraps. the undeniable fabrics ones people journey in are observed as Polos. some people deliver in undeniable polos, yet quite, they could be using delivery wraps which would be "created" with cotton quilts decrease than the polos or offered synthetic. There are additionally status wraps, countless wound wraps, etc. They selection in how a lot pass they permit and what they have been designed to do. they are able to be form of problematical to get on properly till you have somebody tutor you some circumstances. in the event that they're positioned on incorrectly they might reason greater injury than they might ever wish to sidestep. by using concern and the actuality that they do each so often slip or shift, some people use activities drugs boots or Splint boots. individually, i do no longer use any on my horses. the probability for injury is basically too a lot for the point and volume of driving I do now. i could evaluate them if I have been nonetheless doing bigger ranges of dressage, leaping, reining or doing especially accumulated and sophisticated strikes.
Try a cradle - it is a stiff collar with a rungs that are connected to each other with webbing or leather. It prevents the horse bending its neck and using their teeth to do this sort of thing.